Four Websites to Help You Find the Perfect Internship

Melting snow and warm weather ignite spring fever in students, envisioning vacations and time off from school. The change of seasons also serves as a reminder that summer just is around the corner, bringing with it a chance for students to gain valuable work experience through internships and other programs that broaden both resumes and education.

Just as the internet has made finding the right scholarship that much easier, tracking down the internship that best meets your needs and qualifications also takes less work thanks to a variety of websites dedicated to matching interns and opportunities. Here are a few sites that can get you started finding the perfect internship:

Sponsored by text-book seller Chegg, this site seems like a pretty basic place to start looking for internships. Rather than just sit on a convenient URL, though, Internships.com provides more than just a comprehensive database of internships. Students can search for internships by geographic region and major or use the “Internship Predictor,” a questionnaire (not unlike those used to help potential employees find career paths) to help find new areas of interest which students may never have considered.

Those students looking to make a difference in their world during their internship will find Idealist.org’s NPO-focused (Non-profit organization) database appealing. Beyond listing internship opportunities, the site highlights “Action Opportunities” and “Volunteer Opportunities” for those who are looking for a way to engage with their community in different ways in such areas of focus as education, community development, environmental issues and women’s issues.

A long-time hub for publishing and design professionals, MediaBistro offers a wide array of internship opportunities for everything from journalism and publishing to social media and advertising. The focused audience of professionals has created a community over the years that not only makes it easy for interns to get a pulse of the industry, but also find the same ongoing education and training available to professionals.